Home Education Strike Action: Osun NLC Backs ASUU

Strike Action: Osun NLC Backs ASUU

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The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) Osun state Council, has thrown its weight behind the ongoing nationwide strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) saying the action would restore quality and standard in public education in the country.

The state Chairman of NLC, Mr Jacob Adekomi, and Secretary, Mr Rufus Adeyemi, in a statement made available to newsmen in Osogbo maintained that the strike action is a worthwhile struggle.

According to them, “ASUU strike was precipitated by the breach of 2009/2013 agreement.

“The strike is a worthwhile struggle geared toward restoration of quality and standard in the public education sector of the country.

“We opine that it will be counter productive for the government to play politics with a crucial sector that has potential to take the nation out of the wood in the face of unenviable development indices of the nation.

“It must be noted that previous strikes action of this nature when not urgently resolved had led to brain drain which has impacted negatively on the sector.”

The congress said it is optimistic that the Federal Government would, as a matter of utmost urgency, fulfill its own part of the agreement reached with ASUU in other to avert further drifting of the education sector and give room for the various institutions to be reopened for academic business.

They also called on the two owner state governments of Oyo and Osun of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso to take proactive steps by nipping in the bud the lingering industrial crisis that has brought the institution to its knee.

Packaged by Bunmi Oladejo

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